And we're back again. I'm glad that people are enjoying the fic. I'm having a lot of fun with it. Anyways, this one should be a rather short chapter. At least, I think… Here's to hoping! Haha…
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Sonic Forces:
Chapter 3-
Always a Way
While most of the chaos went down in the main sections of Sunset Heights, the southern end of the city was a lot more quiet. Of course that was because Eggman had already had his fun there. It was deserted. Buildings were worn down, had holes in them and didn't look like they would last much longer, the streets were vacant as if they were never occupied in the first place, fires also were left around. It was truly a sad sight for a city as gorgeous as Sunset Heights to get to have a ghost town within it. But that was the world they lived in.
Miles Prower knew that. There was nothing they could do. It had been a few months since the day that the world fell and his brother was… was… well, he didn't like to think about that.
With Sonic gone, his world had been turned upside down and he felt so entirely helpless. So he ran from the problem. He both relished and hated this decision but what could he do now? Even if he wanted to rejoin his friends, he didn't even know where the resistance was since their old base was destroyed.
Still, Tails wasn't heartless and that's how he found himself working on Omega. The once powerful member of Team Dark had been sitting inoperable in Sunset Heights, rusting away for months. He wasn't sure how exactly he got there, but he had to guess it happened when everything went crazy on that day so many months ago.
So he did the one thing he knew best. He fixed Omega. Or at least, attempted to.
Whatever was going on with his internal circuitry, he had no idea. But there was nothing he couldn't fix.
Pressing his hand against the face of the robot, he looked into his lifeless eyes. "I'm not giving up on you, buddy… just hold on tight."
Of course, Omega didn't respond.
Tails stood there for a moment, just looking into the robot's eyes for any sign of life. But nothing. He sighed and got back to work.
If he could just get something to work then just maybe, just maybe… he'd have at least one of his friends back.
~Sonic Forces~
The God of destruction didn't like going through these strange human villages all that much, but he had to if he wanted to make it in time for the meeting with Eggman and his cohorts.
So that's how he found himself slinking through the sewers of Sunset Heights.
This section of town was relatively quiet which he preferred. Reminded him of the calmer days with his brethren before… he couldn't even think about it. It was too painful.
They deserved it and he was very thankful for the help of his… friends? No. Not quite. But still, they helped him in his pursuit of revenge and that much was good enough for him
They would pay for what they had done.
Was there anyone he could take out now. Just to help ease his pain?
Yes… he sensed one. Chaos couldn't help but smile to himself. He was about to have some fun.
~Sonic Forces~
"And… there." Tails smiled as he put two wires together.
But Omega remained unmoving.
"No. I swear I had it this time!"
He deflated. "I'm sorry, Omega…"
He put a hand against the robot and sighed. Closing his eyes.
He just had to keep trying, he'd get it soon…
But then, Tails ear twitched. He heard something. What was that? Running water?
He turned around and came face to face with none other than Chaos.
The God of Destruction slunk towards the fox ever so slowly. He loved scaring mortals in this way, making them shake in terror before he finally ended them.
But for Tails, this was too much. He couldn't fight. He hadn't saved Sonic, how could he possibly defend himself against Chaos?! Wait. Chaos.
This was Chaos 0. He fought against Chaos 4 and won. He shouldn't have been afraid of him. But still, he shuddered at the sight. Chaos and his friends still took out Sonic.
He tried to stand his ground. "Ch-Ch-Chaos! I-I won't let you hurt anyone else! Leave me and Omega alone!"
Chaos was a little surprised. Must've been one of those resistance members. But nothing they could handle.
He lunged out at the fox only for him to cower in fear.
Just as he was about to enclose the fox in a watery grave, he sensed something.
Chaos looked up and was surprised to see a puprle swirling vortex appear.
The ancient deity was flabbergasted by the appearance of the thing, but didn't expect what happened next.
Out of the portal, fell a new figure. It screamed as it landed right onto Chaos, knocking him all over the place.
When the water splashed onto Tails, he looked to see the figure. They were short pudgy and a very familiar shade of blue. It was a hedgehog. Could it be?
The hedgehog got up to his feet and shook himself off. "Now that was a rush! Okay, where am I?" [1]
"Sonic...? You're alive?!" Tails asked.
Sonic looked over to Tails, but didn't have much time when a fist made of water slammed into him and knocked him into a wall.
The hedgehog groaned and then looked up at what had hit him to see none other than Chaos preparing to take out Tails.
But he was quick to his feet. "No way I'm gonna let you put a hand on him, 'ya big drip!"
Chaos looked back at the hedgehog only to be homed into. He splattered again and quickly gathered himself.
Sonic was ready though, spindashing into him and scattering Chaos' parts again.
This one was proving a formidable foe. He knew he couldn't stay here. He'd get a chance at this one sometime later, it was time to retreat.
And so with that, chaos slunk back into the sewer.
"Aw come on, where 'ya goin?" Sonic shouted after it.
He shrugged and then zipped over to Tails. The fox was surprised when an arm had suddenly wrapped around his shoulder.
"Did 'ya see me, Tails? I told 'ya everything would be okay! Eggman and that heavy loser were no match for me!"
Tails looked at him confusedly. "What?"
"Sure, you don't remember…?" And that's when he got a look at his younger- or well older brother.
"Tails?"
And that's when Tails got a good look at the blue blur and saw that it also wasn't his Sonic. But… "You're the younger Sonic from the past, aren't you?"
Sonic shrugged. He didn't expect to see the older Tails again until well… Tails was that age. "Uh… yeah. I guess I am. Are we in a weird white limbo thing again?"
Tails shook his head. "No. This is our world. Or well… the future for you."
"Right… time travel. Again… And here I thought that I was done with that sort of thing until well, I guess that happens to me again later."
"Guess not. Do you know how you got here?"
"Sure." Sonic shrugged. "But you probably remember that. I was super and uh… Eggman and his robot played hot potato with his Phantom Ruby thing and I guess it and the chaos emeralds opened up a portal and next thing I knew, I'm here."
Tails didn't remember anything like that, but this Sonic was looking at him expectantly. "That makes sense… I think?"
He shrugged. "'Ya got me, buddy."
"Well… everything happens for a reason right? We need to save the world, so maybe you're here to help save the world!"
Sonic promptly nodded.
"Either way, it's good to see you, Sonic. Heck, it's good to see any Sonic."
Sonic threw an arm around Tails. "Sonic and Tails, out on another adventure!"
Tails laughed. He hadn't done that in so long, but with Sonic or well… a Sonic here, it was at least he knew where he was headed.
And that's when a beep chimed next to them.
They looked towards the source of the noise and saw Omega rising to his feet with a grating screech.
"Omega, you're back!" Tails cheered.
"I am E123-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e 4-5-6-12- red-black-finite-Ruby-y-y-y-y-y-y!"
"Or not…" Sonic chuckled.
Omega steamed and sputtered for a moment before he finally stopped. He turned towards them and looked them in the eyes. "Designation unknown. Alias required."
"You are E123 Omega." Tails said.
"E123 Omega registered."
"Looks like your robot's busted." Sonic said as he watched Tails looking into his circuitry again.
"Actually, it's not mine. It's one of Eggman's."
"And you're helping it?"
"A lot has changed. Omega's one of our friends."
Sonic just looked confusedly at him. "The future's weird."
Tails finally closed the hatch and frowned. "Looks like his memory chip is fried. There's nothing that I can do from here."
"So… what then?"
"Maybe if I could get to my lab down in the mystic ruins but that's all the way down in Soumerica. We'd have to cross the entire continent for that. And well the Tornado I was using was destroyed with the resistance base."
"That's not a problem for us."
"Well…"
"Come on, Tails… 'ya all fancy in the future now and can't go for a good run?"
"What? No!"
"Then come on!"
Tails smiled. "Right. Omega, follow!"
The robot complied and followed after them and like that Sonic and Tails were off again, out on another adventure.
And so they were off through the war torn streets. Chaos didn't come back so the two of them just talked as they ran while Omega wordlessly followed along.
"So… what's up with the future. Why is this place so… wrecked?"
Tails sighed. "Eggman won."
"Eggman what?!"
"He won. I don't know how, he had this weird new weapon with him. This robot thing that was able to turn the world around. He has control of the everything now."
"Well, what about me?"
Tails looked away.
Sonic's smile fell. "Oh…"
"I'm sorry, Sonic. They ganged up on you and Eggman's new thing was just way too fast and-"
"Too fast? Nothing is ever too fast for me. What he do, catch me when I was warming up?"
He shook his head. "No, Sonic. This thing is faster than you. I don't know how but… it was."
"Well it better hope it doesn't run into me then. I'll show Eggman's tincan what happens when you mess with me."
Tails looked at him sadly.
Sonic's glare softened at that and was about to say something about it, but Omega spoke up. "Incoming hostiles."
Both of them looked to see a couple of Eggpongs coming in. They were at the edge of Ghost Town and approaching the Red Gate Bridge. Now however, a squadron of Eggpongs were about to get to them, there were five.
"Destroy those blocking the path of our objective!"
Omega then turned his arms into guns and fired at one of the robots, destroying it instantly.
"Wow!" Sonic gasped. "This guy packs a lotta heat. But two can play that game!"
With that, he jumped into the air and homed in on one of the robots, destroying it instantly.
One of the others tried to fire on him, to which he quickly rolled out of the way. Tails was quick to defeat it, swiping his namesakes at the machine.
Sonic was able to back it up with a spindash to another one of the robots while Omega finished it up by firing on another one of the robots.
"Too fast, too quick." Sonic smirked, dusting off his hands. "Eggman's getting bored if this is what his robots look like these days. No creativity."
Tails laughed. "Y'know, I was thinking the same thing."
Sonic offered his brother a high five that he gladly returned.
The hedgehog then turned to the robot and added, "And you too, tincan! Nice moves you got there. Come on, top shelf!"
The robot stared blankly at him.
Tails chuckled. "You're gonna have to forgive Omega. He's not himself. Even then he doesn't really understand everything we do."
Sonic shrugged and instead gave him a pat on the back. "Well, good job buddy."
They continued walking and very quickly found themselves in the main town, making idle chit chat while Omega followed along. It mostly had to do with Tails asking random questions about both Eggman's domination and ust general future stuff.
"So you're telling me that I get a hoverboard that's so co-ooooooooooooool..." Sonic trailed off.
His eyes were now on the massive Death Egg Robots that were making waste to the town. There were so many of them. Sure, the other part of town had been destroyed. But this? This was too many of them and they were so big! Far larger than any of them he had taken on.
"Look at all these Death Egg Robots!"
"Yeah… Eggman brought them in a few months ago. They already took out the part of the city we were just in and I guess they moved on."
"That's terrible! We gotta do something!"
"Well what do you wanna do? There's no way we can take so many of them on."
"There's always a way, Tails. If there's anything I taught you that I thought you would remember, I hoped it would at least be that."
Tails frowned, but Sonic put a hand on his shoulder and smiled at him.
"I have a plan."
~Sonic Forces~
"All Eggman robots must be destroyed!" Omega announced as he fired at one of the Death Egg Robots.
The bullets flew off of the Metal shell as if it were nothing, but got the attention of the massive robot, to which the robot fled. It was odd seeing Omega run and not be himself, but nothing they could do at the moment.
The robot threw a fist down at where Omega was, an empty street that was out of the way and that's when Sonic and Tails appeared, climbing up the arm of the robot.
Once they reached the top, they ran around the top before they reached it single eye.
"Alright! Here it comes!" Sonic shouted getting ready to spindash into the lense.
But it started to glow to which the hedgehog's eyes widened.
"MOVE!" Tails shouted as he grabbed him by the arms and jumped off of the thing, flying into the air.
The laser fired into the air and missed them.
Sonic looked up at his friend and smiled. "Knew I could always count on you, buddy!"
Tails grinned and then looked down on the Death Egg Robot. He took on a mischevious grin and smiled at his friend. "How about a little boost, Sonic?"
"Let's roll, Tails!"
And with that, the fox spun around in the air, before he threw the hedgehog at the Death Egg Robot. He curled into a ball and a familiar blue aura surrounded him.
He smashed through the eye and the rest of the body causing the thing to freeze.
He landed on the ground on both feet with his hands up in the air and eyes closed.
"And that's how it's done." He said as he took a bow and the Death Egg Robot exploded behind him.
"Come on Tails! Let's take on another!"
Tails agreed and Omega… well, Omega didn't really have a say, he just did whatever someone told him.
The next one they took on, they took by running around and around it in circles causing it to spin around and around in an attempt to smush them, but to no avail. Soon it had done it so much, the the top of the robot spun right off.
They continued on this path and by the time the day was done they had taken four Death Egg Robots.
Unfortunately for them, that was only a fraction of the army and they were getting tired. Tails opted that they retreat to the Red Gate Bridge and head towards Green Hill.
Now they sat on the bridge looking out at the eternal twilight of Sunset Heights. It was gorgeous as the orange sun blended with the water out there.
Rusted metal shone in the light, tails lightly swayed back and forth and feet were lazily kicking over the edge.
"We may not have saved the whole town, but taking out those Death Egg Robots were bound to help out." Tails smiled.
Sonic nodded. "For sure."
"Thanks Sonic."
"For what?"
"Just for being here. I know it was an accident, but if you didn't show up, I don't know what I would've done."
Sonic nodded. "I'd always do anything for you, older or younger or whatever. You know that."
Tails smiled and nodded. "I know and I'd do the same for you."
They sat there looking out at the Sunset for a little while longer before Sonic finally spoke up again.
"Do you remember times like these, Tails?"
The fox looked at him.
"Y'know, wherever we ended up for a night we'd always just sit together and just appreciate the view? Well, I guess I still do that in my time. But like, now that you guys have nice cushy homes and everything. Do you remember how we'd just look out at the sunset and the stars and everything and just enjoy the view?"
"Of course. You always used to tell me everything would be okay no matter what."
"Did you still do that with me before…?"
"Not a lot." Tails admitted. "You're always running around, going wherever your feet take you. But sometimes, when we're out adventuring or even back to my workshop, you always ask me to come over and look out there with you."
Sonic smiled. "Well, buddy. Remember that as long as you're looking out there, there's always gonna be a way. We'll beat Eggman like we always do and you'll see that nothing's impossible."
Tails smiled. Together, the brothers, separated by fate, time and space looked out at the sunset. Tails wasn't sure how exactly but with the other Sonic here, they were gonna win this war.
[1] Chill. Unlike Sega, I have a plan for Classic Sonic.
So this is the first chapter that I am really, truly am proud of. The others I'm somewhat mixed on, but this one? 'Ey, now that's what I'm talkin' about. I know what changes I'm gonna make and you'll find that out in the next chapter when we return to the others. Next chapter is gonna be a ton of fun, but is likely gonna be a long one because we've got a heck of a lot of ground to cover in that one. It's gonna be a lot of fun and more than you expect.
But as for Classic Sonic, I just wanna bring up something. For one, I love the track "It's Good to See a Sonic" because I love that orchestral Mania theme. It's awesome and I love it. If I were in charge of Forces, I would've made that Classic Sonic's motif for the game. It would really make it feel like it's a direct continuation to his adventures in Mania. Mix it in with a little I Wanna Fly High and bam, we have the music for Tails and Classic Sonic's adventure. But that's just me.
Anyways, that'll do for this chapter Hope you enjoyed. R&R
